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Pompeo Weighs Plan to Place Cuba on U.S. Terrorism Sponsor List
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 29 December 2020
The move would complicate any effort by the incoming Biden administration to resume President Barack Obama’s thaw in relations with Havana.State Department officials have drawn up a proposal to designate Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, a final-hour foreign policy move that would complicate plans by the incoming Biden ... read more
Cuba Cuba to Ask COVID-19 Negative Test Result From Foreign Visitors
News from Cuba | Sunday, 27 December 2020
Cuba's Foreign Affairs Ministry (Minrex) Thursday announced that all international travelers entering the country as of January 1 must present a COVID-19 negative test result. The test must be performed by a certified laboratory in the country of origin no later than 72 hours before the trip. The measure comes amid a ... read more
Gracias! Season’s Greetings and best wishes for 2021
Campaign News | Friday, 25 December 2020
The Cuba Solidarity Campaignwishes you a peaceful break and best wishes for 2021. We know 2020 has been incredibly difficult for many of our friends and supporters, and we are grateful for your continued support throughout the last year. Despite the hardships of recent months, we have drawn hope and inspiration ... read more
220 Cuban Doctors To Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic in Panama
News from Cuba | Thursday, 24 December 2020
Panama on Thursday received 220 Cuban doctors who came to fight the pandemic in the Central American country that has the highest incidence rate of the disease in the continent. On Dec. 15, Health Minister Luis Sucre announced the hiring of foreign doctors and the beginning of adjustments in health facilities ... read more
US Treasury Identifies Cuban State-Owned Businesses for Sanctions Evasion
News from Cuba | Monday, 21 December 2020
On 21 December the US government added a further three Cuban companies to it's blacklist of Cuban sanctioned companies. The full statement from the US Treasury Department is reproduced below. Washington – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) identified three entities controlled by ... read more
Second member of British House of Lords nominates Cuban medics for Nobel Peace Prize
Campaign News | Monday, 21 December 2020
Baroness Pauline Bryan of Partick, a member of the British parliament’s second chamber, the House of Lords, has become the second member of the Lords and the fourteenth British parliamentarian to formally nominate the Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. In a video recording supporting her ... read more
Miami Five hero Gerardo Hernandez elected to Cuba's Council of State
News from Cuba | Friday, 18 December 2020
CUBAN national hero Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo was elected to the country’s Council of State today — almost six years to the day after he was released from prison in the US. Mr Hernandez was elected to fill a vacancy in the body which oversees the work of the National Assembly of ... read more
Cuba says economy shrank 11% in 2020, thwarts 'soft coup' attempts
News from Cuba | Friday, 18 December 2020
Cuba’s already cash-strapped economy shrank 11% in 2020 due to the pandemic and tougher U.S. sanctions but the government thwarted attempts by anti-communists to exploit this momentary weakness in a bid to topple it, President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on Thursday. Addressing a year-end session of the Communist-run country’s parliament, Diaz-Canel celebrated ... read more
More British academics nominate Cuban medics for international Peace Prize
Campaign News | Friday, 18 December 2020
Erica Burman and Ian Parker have joined six other British academics in making formal nominations to award Cuba’s Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. Psychologists Professor of Education Erica Burman of the University of Manchester and Ian Parker Emeritus Professor of Management at the University of Leicester ... read more
Cuba facing the economic crossroads
News from Cuba | Thursday, 17 December 2020
The combined effects of the international economic crisis, deepened by the pandemic, and the deepening to extremes of the US economic, commercial and financial blockade (with more than 130 punitive measures in the last two years), have had a harsh impact in Cuba. The country has had to face the paralysis ... read more
Cuba sends medical brigade to Mexico to fight Covid-19
News from Cuba | Thursday, 17 December 2020
The second group of a Cuban medical brigade to contribute to the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic traveled to Mexico City on Thursday. According to Cubaminrex, the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the dispatch of healthcare professionals from the Henry Reeve International Medical Contingent took place after Mexican authorities ... read more
Catch up on our meeting with Gerardo Hernandez and Richard Burgon MP
Campaign News | Tuesday, 15 December 2020
To mark the sixth anniversary of the release of the Miami Five (17 December 2014), we were honoured to welcome Gerardo Hernández for a live discussion with Richard Burgon MP. Hundreds tuned in on the Cuba Solidarity Campaign's YouTube channel on Monday 14 December to watch the live link up with ... read more
Richard Burgon MP becomes tenth British parliamentarian to formally nominate Cuban medics for the Nobel Peace Prize
Campaign News | Monday, 14 December 2020
Richard Burgon MP is the tenth British Member of Parliament to formally nominate the Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. Mr Burgon, who was elected MP for Leeds East in the North of England in 2015, received confirmation of his nomination from the Nobel Prize ... read more
Baroness Christine Blower is ninth British parliamentarian to formally nominate Cuban medics for the Nobel Peace Prize
Campaign News | Saturday, 12 December 2020
Baroness Christine Blower of Starch Green, a member of the British parliament’s second chamber, the House of Lords, has become the first member of the Lords and the ninth British parliamentarian to formally nominate the Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. Baroness Blower said that she ... read more
Cuba will unify its currency and exchange rates on January 1st
News from Cuba | Friday, 11 December 2020
In a televised announcement featuring Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez and General Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party and Commander in Chief Raul Castro Ruz, set a date for the country's monetary and exchange rate change for January 1, 2021. The decision, approved by the Political Bureau of the Communist Party ... read more
The democracy business in Cuba is bustling
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 9 December 2020
A sprawling network of U.S. government-financed groups sends cash to thousands of Cuban democracy activists, journalists and dissidents each year. At any given moment, dozens of organizations manage democracy programs on the island. Public records reveal only fleeting glimpses of the mosaic. Some programs are so secret that the recipients of ... read more
Cuba, USAID and terrorist Gutiérrez Boronat against Cuban tourism
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 8 December 2020
In another attempt to asphyxiate the Cuban economy, in this case, by seeking to delegitimize Cuba's tourism sector, the U.S. government has awarded large sums of money to a Cuban-American "democracy promotion" organization based in South Florida which recently called for an armed invasion against Cuba. The United States Agency for ... read more
British academic receives confirmation of Nobel nomination for Cuban medics
Campaign News | Tuesday, 8 December 2020
Dr John Yandell, Associate Professor at University College London’s Institute of Education has become the fifth British academic to formally nominate the Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee acknowledged receipt of his on 3 December. Five academics and eight parliamentarians from ... read more
British child health expert formally nominates Cuban medics for Nobel Peace Prize
Campaign News | Tuesday, 8 December 2020
Imti Choonara, Emeritus Professor in Child Health at the University of Nottingham has officially nominated Cuba’s Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. Choonara, who is an expert on health care in Cuba and has spoken and written about Cuban medical care becomes the sixth British academic ... read more
Cuba tests vaccine candidate Abdala against COVID-19
News from Cuba | Saturday, 5 December 2020
So far, Cuba has four vaccine candidates: Soberana 01, Soberana 02, Abadala and Mambisa. Cuba has begun the clinical trial of a new vaccine candidate against COVID-19, named Abdala (CIGB-66), in Santiago de Cuba province, in the east of the country. The candidate was developed by the Center for Genetic Engineering and ... read more
Cuban Doctors Mark 22 Years of Internationalist Aid in Haiti
News from Cuba | Friday, 4 December 2020
The Cuban Medical Brigade this December marks 22 years of internationalist aid in Haiti, Latin America's poorest country that has been impacted by earthquakes, hurricanes, the cholera epidemic, and the COVID-19 pandemic. "Hundreds of doctors have treated the Haitian people over the last two decades. They have addressed complicated ailments in ... read more
Academic Professor David McLellan nominates Cuban medics for Nobel Peace Prize
Campaign News | Friday, 4 December 2020
British academic David McLellan has formally nominated Cuba’s Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade to receive the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. McLellan is a Professor of Political Theory at Goldsmiths' College, University of London, and an expert on Karl Marx and Marxism, on which he has written several books. In support of ... read more
Claudia Webbe MP nominates Cuban medics for Nobel Peace Prize
Campaign News | Wednesday, 2 December 2020
Claudia Webbe, has become the 6th Member of the UK Parliament to have formally nominated Cuba’s Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. Claudia was elected in December 2019 to represent the constituency Leicester East. In her nomination submission Claudia Webbe MP said: “Over the past fifteen years, ... read more
